rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

A big red fist = black power?

xxp: I'm trying to get at the heart of why Andrew thought it racist.

Yeah, racist is not I suppose exactly where I was going, though I did initially connect it with the Black Power movement (I think this is bizarrely just because... there's an arm?). I lolled at the Librarians as well, but at least they are (to varying levels of ridiculousness across their membership) struggling under some sort of oppression, where, as beachville says, reusing the iconongraphy for contacts download seems kind of O_o.

This led me here:

http://www.aics.org/images/aimaim.gif

I don't think I had every looked in detail to the AIM's logo before, but god forgive me the peace sign just says "bunny ears" to me.

I may have just leapt back from the monitor, having spotted the face that they are being the bunny ears to.

I think the fingers are feathers, not a peace sign.

http://yourlifemoments.ca/images/moments/2010/7/EDMInterBroElectric%20LOGO.jpg

The 1's and 0's in the fingers are a clever touch

IBEW logo is one of my favorite logo designs evar

I'll go out on a limb and say that this article, published earlier this week in the online magazine Alternative Right run by the ex-editor of Taki's Mag and The American Conservative, and associate of Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan, et. al. (group photo:
http://www.hlmenckenclub.org/Home.html ), is possibly racist..

http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/is-black-genocide-right/

Mine too, shakey!!

I saw large sticker version plastered on one of those temporary doors they put up when subway stations are half-closed for construction, took a picture of it, used it for phone background for a long time.

This was after the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the most famous raised-fist black power salute of all time, but when I was in high school in 1970 my older sister, who was in college, gave me a t-shirt with a blood-red fist stenciled on it with the words "On Strike! Shut it down!". This was in the weeks just after the Cambodian invasion, the Kent State and Jackson State killings, when college campuses all over were shut down in war protest. I wore it often enough it wore out.

I tried to use GIS to find a similar image, but couldn't. It was not considered in any way racist at the time, but a universal symbol of resistance and solidarity.

lol not really the shakiest of limbs there, Campari

I don't actually have to ask, p. sure this is racist.

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/internet-memes-he-doesnt-even-really-need-the-calculator.jpg

ehh, idk?

that's pretty mild as far as borderline racsity jokes involving jeremy lin

"internet-memes-he-doesnt-even-really-need-the-calculator.jpg"

Racist in a complimentary way

he got into harvard because he was good at basketball and not cause he was good at math

But all Asian people are good at math, that's the racist bit?

"Math", listen to me

"Asian", listen to me again

yeah

He got into Harvard because he was good at both. (He studied econ.)

yeah but he had a 3.1 gpa, that's like the lowest gpa in harvard history

haha oh no it isn't

man I wanna get that AIM patch & sew it to my jacket but I get Is This Racist? racial angst about it

I don't understand that patch, why is the Native American's head made out of a hand?

Peace sign / headdress mash-up?

'73 after all

it's a much-needed call for oppressed peoples to grow prehensile head-fingers to aid them in their struggle

that lin photo is pretty racist

yeah the photo itself is racist but the text implies that he wouldn't be capable of it if it weren't for his secret math skills

instead of, being good at basketball

like that's not even 'racist in a complimentary way'

Peace sign / headdress mash-up?

^^^ it's really interesting iconography to me, I think it's asserting connections between the desire for peace (presumably shared by many who might run across the image) and the need for some sort of restorative justice for native Americans

I mean, last week I got asked if I was doing calculus when I was four years old. ¯\(°_0)/¯

yeah the photo itself is racist but the text implies that he wouldn't be capable of it if it weren't for his secret math skills

Ah right, didn't spot that right away

plus also native americans are notorious jokers in photos and patches xxxxpost

Racist in a complimentary way

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:20 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha did you know all Jews are shrewd businessmen? It's true!

If you see a meme or whatever out there of Jeremy Lin playing upon his Asian heritage, it's probably a little racisty.

Just tell me please that I'm not going to be opening this thread for the next two months and seeing fortune cookie math chopstick wong chong dong jpgs posted over and over again with "Eh? EH?" captioned underneath.

it's racist to not want to focus on lin racism

now I want to read "lin" as "iln," like it's an anagram of an ILX board

Just tell me please that I'm not going to be opening this thread for the next two months and seeing fortune cookie math chopstick wong chong dong jpgs posted over and over again with "Eh? EH?" captioned underneath.

I would love to be able to tell you that but trends seem to point towards exactly that happening.

this is becoming a fetishist thread

welcome to ilx

now I want to read "lin" as "iln," like it's an anagram of an ILX board

I Love N...

Was this some sort of Whiney experiment to see if ILX could go from a Kings of Leon video to the Moore's Ford Bridge in fewer than 5000 posts?